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Carlene Carter: Stronger
Billy Altman  |  Jul 30, 2008
Yep Roc
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Known as much for her life offstage as on, country rocker Carlene Carter has released her first collection of new material s

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Ruthie Foster: The Truth According to Ruthie Foster
Billy Altman  |  Feb 26, 2009
Blue Corn
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She's been recording for a decade, but Texas singer/songwriter Ruthie Foster was a fairly well-kept secret on the folk/
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Buddy & Julie Miller: Written in Chalk
Billy Altman  |  Mar 11, 2009
New West
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They've sung and played on each other's albums since the early 1990s, but Written in Chalk is only the seco
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Bob Dylan: Together Through Life
Billy Altman  |  May 04, 2009
Columbia
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Before delving into anything pro or con about Bob Dylan's latest album - a collection that, right out of the
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CD REVIEW: Gretchen Wilson
Billy Altman  |  Nov 06, 2005
All Jacked Up Epic
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Granted, "Redneck Woman" Gretchen Wilson's second
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CD Review: Brooks & Dunn
Billy Altman  |  Dec 03, 2007
Cowboy Town Arista Nashville
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Brooks & Dunn hit the commercial wall when 1999's Tight Rope

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Kanye West: My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
Billy Altman  |  Feb 28, 2011
 
Roc-A-Fella
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My Chemical Romance: Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys
Billy Altman  |  Feb 28, 2011
 
Reprise
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CD Review: Sarah Jarosz, Sierra Hull
Billy Altman  |  May 18, 2011

Given the ubiquity these days of performers whose acts seem to rely as much (or more) on technology as on talent, fans of genres like Americana can be forgiven for fretting that fretboards could soon wind up on the endangered species list.

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CD Review: Lady Gaga
Billy Altman  |  May 26, 2011

Listening to Lady Gaga’s relentless new CD, I can’t help but think of those old TV commercials in which a housewife would unscrew the cap to a bottle of Ajax liquid cleanser and unleash a “White Tornado” on her kitchen floor. Except in Gaga’s case, it’s a (bleached) white tornado being unleashed on every dancefloor of the planet.

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